This is an analysis of the poem A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books that begins with:
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain
In Dalton that would someday make his fortune....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacd eabcabbX X X dX X feX X bbbX X gchbbiXX jX jXck bjlb aX X X X hX X bbcmccX X eknkkbbX g ccnkjgj ojkncacbXXjinjjck kgcjkhlbphfehfkcXcppXocnbgjXbabjid h X XXkkeg k g gmaheXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,1,1,2,1,3,1,4,1,8,2,4,4,2,1,1,1,2,1,7,1,8,1,7,17,34,1,1,6,1,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101010 01011111010 100110101010 11011110010 01010111110 11011111001 11111111010 11110111111 0101010100 1101010111 11111101010 01100110010 1111010101 11110 1111 10 1111010101 11011 111010 1111111111 11110001110 11010101011 1101 1111110 11011101010 01011101110 01010 110111 1101010011 0111011100 1100101100 11110101000 11110111010 11110100111 01111101011 1110010 1101 11111100011 1101001001 010001010 01110001010 11010100101 1111011111 01110101010 1111010001 01000101010 10110110010 11111001010 11010101010 11000 11110 11110101110 1101011111 1110101110 11100110100 1111110101 0111010111 1111010101 01010101010 11011101 1111111101 1101011111 111101101010 1111011101 11010101110 1101001111 1111011111 1111010111 111111010111 01110111110 01011111101 1101110101 1101010111 0111110001 0101010101 1101110101 0110111100 11011001010 10101110010 1100010101 11111111011 11010110010 1101110100 1111010100 0101101010 1101001101 0101010100 1011010100 11110111010 1101010101 1111111101 1101110101 11111101010 01010111010 1101110001 1101001101 10110101 010101010 11110111010 0101000101 11010101010 11010101 11010100101 1101111100 0101010110 0100010111 1101101100 1101000100 1111011101 0111010101 1001010101 11010101111 11001001101 11110101010 01110101010 1101010001 01010101010 101111001010 1001110101 1101011001 1101000101 1001010101 11011101000 10111000001 1101111111 1011110101 11010101010 10110101 1011011101 11011011100 111111 1111 0101111111 0101001001 11000101010 11011110010 11010111010 01011101110 11110110110 1011110100 0110110011 0101111010 11010101110 01000101010 1110011101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, me, ', it, to, 'i, for, she, tended, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'i, and, she, the are repeated.
The author used the same words we, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', it, books, windowsill are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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